3.4. Patch information for Hive

HIVE-8042 Hive queries execute MoveTasks sequentially which slows down performance significantly in large queries.

HIVE-4516 Timestamp field is not multi thread safe.

HIVE-6716:ORC struct throws NPE for tables with inner structs having null values

HIVE-5002: Loosen readRowIndex visibility in ORC's RecordReaderImpl to package private

HIVE-5562: Stripe level stats for ORC Files. You can look at stripe stats without having to read the whole stripe.

HIVE-2084: Upgraded DataNuclues from v2.0.3 to v3.0.1.

HIVE-3815: Fixed failures for hive table rename operation when filesystem cache is disabled.

HIVE-3846: Fixed null pointer exceptions (NPEs) for alter view rename operations when authorization is enabled.

HIVE-3255: Added DBTokenStore to store Delegation Tokens in database.

HIVE-4171: Current database in metastore. Hive is not consistent with SessionState.

HIVE-4392: Fixed Illogical InvalidObjectExceptionwhen using mulit aggregate functions with star columns.

HIVE-4343: Fixed HiveServer2 with Kerberos - local task for map join fails.

HIVE-4485: Fixed beeline prints null as empty strings.

HIVE-4510: Fixed HiveServer2 nested exceptions.

HIVE-4513: Added support to disable Hive history logs by default.

HIVE-4521: Fixed auto join conversion failures

HIVE-4540: Fixed failures for GROUPBY/DISTINCT operations when mapjoin.mapred=true.

HIVE-4611: Fixed SMB join failures because of conflicts in bigtable selection policy.

HIVE-5542: Fixed TestJdbcDriver2.testMetaDataGetSchemas failures.

HIVE-3255: Fixed Metastore upgrade scripts failures for PostgreSQL version less than 9.1.

HIVE-4486: Fixed FetchOperator that was causing the SMB joins to slow down 50% when there are large number of partitions.

Removed npath windowing function.

HIVE-4465: Fixed issues for WebHCatalog end to end tests for the exitvalue.

HIVE-4524: Added support for Hive HBaseStorageHandler to work with HCatalog.

HIVE-4551: Fixed HCatLoader failures caused when loading ORC table External apache (4551.patch).